Quotes About Understanding

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

I am not a scientist.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Science is always inquiring.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.